Alban Kang

Alban is a preeminent lawyer with a specialised focus on complex patent litigation and other contentious IP related cases.

Alban is a partner in the Intellectual Property & Technology Group based in Singapore. He currently leads the ASEAN and Japan focus practice of the firm. He has been in practice for over 30 years.

Alban represents major software companies, computer manufacturers, well known trade mark owners, pharmaceutical companies, book publishers, international airlines and well known hotel chains, as well as collection agencies and advertising agencies. He also represents a number of Japanese clients. He is regularly engaged in complex patent litigation and other contentious IP-related cases, and has also been involved in a number of high profile IP cases before the Singapore Court of Appeal. He also handles multi-jurisdictional IP litigation cases.

He has written and presented many articles and papers in the spectrum of IP law. Alban is the author of the book Enforcing Injunctions, co-contributor of Essays on Computer Law, and general editor of A Guide to Singapore Patent Law. He has also authored the Patent section of the Halsbury Law of Singapore, and the Singapore chapter on Patent Claim Interpretation.

Alban has been consistently ranked as a leading intellectual property lawyer by the Asia Pacific Legal 500, IAM Patent 1000 and the Chambers Asia-Pacific editions.

Ang Kwee Tiang

Regional Director, Asia Pacific IFPI (the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry)

KT is the Asia Pacific Regional Director for IFPI, the organization representing the recorded music industry worldwide with more than 1,300 record producer and distributor members from over 60 countries. He coordinates IFPI's priorities across the region, leading legal policy and government affairs and anti-piracy actions to develop the framework for copyright that is essential for the further development of the music industry in the region.

KT oversees the Asia Pacific Regional Office in Hong Kong and a Representative Office in Beijing. He also supervises all of the IFPI national groups and collecting societies across the region and is engaged in an active program to put in place the legal rights and effective collecting societies for IFPI member companies throughout the region.

Prior to his IFPI appointment in January 2013, KT Ang was the Asia Pacific Regional Director of CISAC for 24 years where he had helped to create, revitalize and/or develop most of the authors/publishers copyright collective management organizations in the region including in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, Philippines, Taiwan, Macau, Mongolia, Brunei, China, India and Indonesia. He had also served as a director or advisor on the boards of many of those organizations. It was during this time when he worked with IFRRO and developed the work plan that led to the creation of CLASS.

KT Ang has a first degree in law from the National University of Singapore, a Masters of Law and a Postgraduate Diploma in UK, US and EU Copyright Laws from King's College, University of London. He has undertaken more than 100 expert advisory missions and speaking engagements at the invitation of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) to developing countries in Asia, on copyright law and the creation of copyright societies.

Christopher Yaw

Christopher is a publishing veteran with about 30 years of experience, having joined the industry in the last century --- an increasingly rare qualification which he enjoys sharing with newcomers to the business. He has held key positions in local and international publishers, including Oxford University Press, McGraw-Hill Education, Marshall Cavendish and World Scientific Publishing Company.

Christopher has also helmed the publications modules at the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University.

Tony Lund

Secretary, Australian Society of Authors; Board member of China Book International Advisory Board

Anil Chandy

Anil Chandy is Vice President, Major Reference Works Publishing at Springer Nature, based in Singapore. He is responsible globally for the reference works business across all of Springer Nature’s publishing disciplines that are under the Springer and Palgrave Macmillan imprints. He leads an international reference editorial team located out of 7 cities across the world - New York, London, Heidelberg, New Delhi, Hong Kong, Beijing and Singapore. He is also Managing Director of Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.

Anil received his Master of Arts degree in International Politics and MPhil in Strategic Studies from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Anil joined Springer in 2007 to set up the first editorial team for Springer in Asia (outside of Japan) and was responsible for expanding the Major Reference Works publishing portfolio across Asia before taking up responsibility for the global program in 2014. Apart from leading commissioning and publishing teams, Anil has also managed technology and data teams involved in software development and workflow solutions for Springer Nature. Prior to joining Springer Nature, he worked at Sage, OUP and Deloitte Consulting. He is also a member of the Singapore Institute of Directors.

Tan Chor Meng

Director of Sales with Wiley’s Publishing segment in Asia, a global research and learning company.

Chor Meng is a Director of Sales with Wiley’s Publishing segment in Asia, a global research and learning company. Responsible for leading a team across eight markets in Asia, he is deeply involved in building Industry transformation and large-scale enterprise partners in improving access, affordability and outcomes of learners, with his organization’s strategic approaches to content and services consumption.

An accomplished business leader in Asia Pacific with extensive experience in Education and Learning, Chor Meng has a proven track record in revenue growth, strategy development, government relations, digital transformation, customer success and strategic partnership. Prior to joining Wiley, he held various roles in his thirteen years with Pearson, where he also served as Regional Director, Editor and Sales Director, focusing on regional business unit P&L, new business development, product management, marketing and service delivery.

Chor Meng plays an important role in protecting intellectual property and enforcing copyright in Wiley. He also serves as a Director on the board of Copyright Licensing and Administration Society of Singapore, where he leads efforts to enable expanded and equitable access of commercial copyright material.

Chua Hong Koon

Chua Hong Koon is the Publishing Director at World Scientific Publishing Company.
Hong Koon has 40 years of publishing experience working with major publishers such as Pearson and Oxford University Press.
He is also a Director of the Singapore Book Council.

CEO: Paul Wee, PBM

Paul Wee is the Chief Executive Officer of the Copyright Licensing and Administration Society of Singapore Limited (CLASS).

He has helmed CLASS since its formation in 2000, first as its General Manager and soon after as its CEO. From zero licensing 18 years ago, Paul has managed to transform CLASS into one of Asia’s most successful copyright management organizations with annual distribution of royalties totalling about $20million to its members.

While serving CLASS, he was also engaged by the International Federation of Reproduction Rights Organizations (IFRRO) as its Regional Development Representative from 2006-2014 to help establish and develop copyright management organizations in Asia where he has successfully helped set up CMOs in the Philippines, Indonesia and Vietnam. He has also been involved as a speaker for both IFRRO and the UN’s World Intellectual Property Office (WIPO) on licensing and respect for copyright to regional government officials.

Prior to heading CLASS, Paul was a school teacher, noted newspaper crime reporter, magazine editor/publisher and producer for national TV, where he created Singapore's first motoring show, “Wheel Power”, for the then Television Corporation of Singapore before it became MediaCorp.

Paul has a MBA from the Graduate School of Management at Macquarie University of Australia. In 2010, he was conferred the Public Service Medal (PBM) by the President of Singapore for his active service to the community as a volunteer grassroots leader.